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All of the women in music business understand that. They're fighting in a misogynist world. That's why they wear some elements of their femininity and have to blend it in with masculinity... it's a kind of protection. Somebody like Madonna is strong but soft. You have to be that way in this business.

Nelly Furtado

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Nelly Furtado
Age: 45
Born: 1978
Born: December 2
Actor
Film Actor
Guitarist
Musician
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Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Nelly Kim Furtado
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I say it's a girls' world.
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I actually feel pretty inspired and hopeful by the fact that protests are becoming the norm now. They're less part of fringe society and more a part of mainstream society. That's exciting. There is no fringe anymore. We should all be included.
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I'm privileged that I'm an artist.
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When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: You're going to get through this.
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If we stepped away from so much of the victimhood talk, I think that would make a big change for the better. It does limit art. The conversation wouldn't just be one-sided.
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I'd love to try and teach Donald Trump how to write a song. I'd love to put him in a room with another person - someone who's protesting him at the Women's March. I'd put the three of us in a room and all write a song together. If that can happen, it proves we can get over our differences.
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Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.
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Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.
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I definitely believe that we really need to stop putting things in masculine and feminine boxes and realize that men and women both contain masculine and feminine energy.
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When you follow your heart, you always win and it feels so good.
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When she walks she walks with passion when she talks, she talks like she can handle it when she asks for something, boy she means it she know you would do [anything] to keep her by your side she'll make you work hard make you spend hard make you want all, all of her she'll make you fall real fast [in love].
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I am impressed when music matters, when genres are broken, when spirits are lifted, when people make a difference, and when people are true to themselves.
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We can't automatically think about young women in makeup negatively. Sometimes a woman engages in these new forces and energies of beauty coming into her world. They can become tools. She's trying to express her femininity outwardly. I'm still learning too.
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I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different.
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I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.
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As an artist, comfort can be your worst enemy.
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